When summer rolls around a lot of anglers believe you have to slow down in deeper water with huge crankbaits and big worms or jigs, or try your patience with few bites in shallow water with plastics or square-bill crankbaits.
All of those do work, whether you’re throwing a Lucky Craft Fat CB Big Daddy Strike 4 or a Flat CB D-20. It’s fun to pitch a big 10-inch worm or flip a jig and creature bait around cover deep or shallow.
Flat CB D-20 (246-Ghost Sunfish)
Fat CB B.D.S. 4 (071-Summer Craw)
But one tactic Skeet Reese enjoys in summer is fast cranking.
“When they move out to the ledges I’m a firm believer that a high-speed bait is what triggers bites,” he said. “I want a bait you can fish slow but also burn. Not all crankbaits are designed so you can fish them at a high speed.
“A slow presentation doesn’t trigger fish at times and you need a high-speed bait to create the reaction strike. Once you get the first fish to initiate the strike with a burner, then you can light up the school and wear them out.”
Reese has seen that happen often with inactive schools of bass that just won’t turn on unless he gets them fired up.
“It happens often, like when you have an inactive school where you’re fishing a worm through there and nothing happens,” he said. “But you burn a crankbait through there or bounce it off the ledges and you’re creating reaction strikes from fish. It’s no different than doing it off a laydown with a square-bill to spark their killer instinct. When something bounces off or deflects, they’re going to take a look.”
Below is color chart for the Flat CB D-20
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